#BDS
Crossing lines with PalFest
Ursula Lindsey's thoughtful piece on freedom of movement in Palestine and the importance of the annual literary festival there.
Ursula Lindsey
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Ursula Lindsey
Ursula Lindsey has lived in Cairo since 2002. She writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times' Latitude blog and the London Review of Books blog. She edits the Arabist blog.
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#2014 presidential elections
Tactical voters
In the 2012 presidential elections, a little less than 5 million people voted for left-leaning journalist and long-time opposition figure Hamdeen Sabbahi. As he comes back to the polls in 2014 in…
Lina Attalah و Ursula Lindsey
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#Dostour Party
A new leader for a young party
Hala Shukrallah was elected the new president of the Dostour party on February 21. The 59-year-old sociologist, a Coptic Christian and the first woman to be elected to head a…
Ursula Lindsey
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#National Council for Human Rights
Counting the dead
This week, the National Council for Human Rights will release the final report of its fact-finding committee on the dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in that took place on August 14,…
Jahd Khalil و Ursula Lindsey
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#2012 Constitution
Egypt’s winding path toward a new constitution
Since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians have witnessed the formation of three constitutional assemblies and have been called on to vote on two draft constitutions (as well…
Ursula Lindsey
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#architecture
Learning from Cairo
Last April a group of activists, academics, architects and those who have become obsessed, in one way or another, with the failures and future of megacities, met at the American University…
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Ursula Lindsey
The regime’s new clothes
«Sometime in June, cars in Egypt began displaying plain sheets of A4 paper with the sentence: “Have you prayed for the Prophet today?” There was nothing…»
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